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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEoRGE s. PAGE, OF STANLEY, NEW JERsEY, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO CHARLES E. BOOTH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MANUFACTURE OF PAPER FOR PACKING AND OTHER PURPOSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,840, dated June 14, 1881.

Application filed December 16, 1880. (No specimens.) v

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE SHEPARD PAGE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Stanley, in the county of Morris and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Paper for Packing and other Purposes, of which the following is a full, clear,'and exact description.

The object of my invention is to produce a fabric useful in the preservation of fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy products, 850., not only from decay, but from becoming Wasted or insipid, without imparting to the same any obnoxious odor, or unfit it for culinary or edible purposes; and to this end my invention consists in saturating the paper with a composition of salicylic acid, resin, paraffine, crude turpentine, and pine-tar.

2o The solution or composition in which the'pa per or other material is saturated is composed of salicylic acid, ten (10) per cent; resin, fifty per cent; paraffine, ten (10) per cent; crude turpentine, fifteen (15) per cent.; pinez 5 tar, fifteen (15) per cent. Steam or other heat is used as a reducing agent to form a chemical combination of all the elements. The paper is then passed through this compound, so as to thoroughly saturate the same, and is then freed 0 from any surplus of the saturating material by means of scrapers or pressure-rolls, and then passed in contact with heated surfaces or exposed to heated air-blasts, whereby the paper is rendered dry and cleanly. Any suitable or 5 proper machine may be used for the satura tion and drying.

For some purposes it may be necessary to substitute resin for the crude turpentine and pine-tar, and also to increase the percentage of paraffine and salicylic acid to some extent, 0 without departing from the spirit of my invention.

In some instances, where the odor is not injurious or objectionable, I may substitute for the salicylic acid naphthaline, or the naphtha- 5 line may be used in connection with the salicylic acid.

I do not limit myself to paper thus treated, for it is obvious that felted-or woven fabrics could be saturated and used to advantage in 0 the same manner as the paper, and that woolen fabrics,furs, feathers, and like articles are pre-- served from the ravages of insects, and that metal surfaces are protected from rust and tarnish by being Wrapped in the material or fab- 5 ric prepared as above described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The compound herein described for satu rating or coating paper, felt, woven fabric, or similar material, the same consisting of snlicylic acid, resin, paraffine, crude turpentine, and pine-tar, as set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, paper or similar fibrous or textile material saturated with the compound herein described, and treated in the manner set forth, for the purposes herein stated.

GEORGE SHEPARD PAGE.

Witnesses:

GEo. W. P ARsoN, CHAS. E. Boorn. 

